We all know the purpose of life is to reproduce, so it looks like we (the planet) has just done it fellas. Now where were we? Ah yes, nuking ourselves to oblivion. Now without the guilt.
I agree that you do have a valid point, however I myself am not in a position to buy the latest pc's so I myself own 2 of these "Seld-M-Break " pc's with cheap psu's etc. Now either a) Im an exceptional computer builder or b) take really good care of my system or c)my parts are rather good because the only failure ive had is a missing capslock key when i bought my keyboard. meh. Ive had them around for just over a year (got em at christmas) so theres still time for failur but its looking good. Another eyar ansd theyl be obsolete and time to replace anyway, but still valuable enough to sell on to people who dont need as much power.
$500? Im estimating thats about £320 GBP. My 2.8ghz p4 with 512 ram and fx5200 came to £200, including monitor and everything (21" crt). Obviously not everything was new, but what is the point in a budget pc with top grade parts? These guys cant think, they're just contradicting themselves. Again.
Once again I see a pointless book written by anti-microsoft.
The book doesnt even sound like it has an open mind (i.e well micrsoft does this okay but this can do it slightly faster because...) it just sounds like a pile of: OH NO, M$ IS NOT GOOD! GET LINUX OR OSS NOW OR DIE!
Oh yes and I have tried linux before. I tried it and came back to windows after a month. It was stable, to be fair, but it couldnt support barely any app i needed the computer for. I.e propellerhead reason, cubase etc.
Basically if you have a specialist use for a pc and your current os manages, then this book may not be for you.
Im a fan of open source and communal development but I do not think Linux is superior to windows. For example (and some kind of attempt to backup my arguement) professional tools such as reason and Cubase struggle if not fail completely to run under a Linux environment, VST support within linux is limited (but there). There are many ways in which linux is superior to windows, but I feel this is not one of them, surely the tools are adequate, but for a user who is interested in business, compatibility aswell as music, the fact that most tools are windows based (most tools that have a company to support them instead of voluntary developers) will probably be enough to keep them out of linux. I have always seen linux as interesting and innovating, but perhaps releasing professional tools is a bit out of it's scope.
Just to summarise, as a hobbyist producer I feel that linux is not a suitable direction unless more commercial software were willing to actively support the migration, so even though linux audio is interesting it will be a while before I use it, that's just my opinion.
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We all know the purpose of life is to reproduce, so it looks like we (the planet) has just done it fellas. Now where were we? Ah yes, nuking ourselves to oblivion. Now without the guilt.
I agree that you do have a valid point, however I myself am not in a position to buy the latest pc's so I myself own 2 of these "Seld-M-Break " pc's with cheap psu's etc. Now either a) Im an exceptional computer builder or b) take really good care of my system or c)my parts are rather good because the only failure ive had is a missing capslock key when i bought my keyboard. meh. Ive had them around for just over a year (got em at christmas) so theres still time for failur but its looking good. Another eyar ansd theyl be obsolete and time to replace anyway, but still valuable enough to sell on to people who dont need as much power.
so it's not budget anymore is it?
$500? Im estimating thats about £320 GBP. My 2.8ghz p4 with 512 ram and fx5200 came to £200, including monitor and everything (21" crt). Obviously not everything was new, but what is the point in a budget pc with top grade parts? These guys cant think, they're just contradicting themselves. Again.
Once again I see a pointless book written by anti-microsoft. The book doesnt even sound like it has an open mind (i.e well micrsoft does this okay but this can do it slightly faster because...) it just sounds like a pile of: OH NO, M$ IS NOT GOOD! GET LINUX OR OSS NOW OR DIE! Oh yes and I have tried linux before. I tried it and came back to windows after a month. It was stable, to be fair, but it couldnt support barely any app i needed the computer for. I.e propellerhead reason, cubase etc. Basically if you have a specialist use for a pc and your current os manages, then this book may not be for you.
Im a fan of open source and communal development but I do not think Linux is superior to windows. For example (and some kind of attempt to backup my arguement) professional tools such as reason and Cubase struggle if not fail completely to run under a Linux environment, VST support within linux is limited (but there). There are many ways in which linux is superior to windows, but I feel this is not one of them, surely the tools are adequate, but for a user who is interested in business, compatibility aswell as music, the fact that most tools are windows based (most tools that have a company to support them instead of voluntary developers) will probably be enough to keep them out of linux. I have always seen linux as interesting and innovating, but perhaps releasing professional tools is a bit out of it's scope. Just to summarise, as a hobbyist producer I feel that linux is not a suitable direction unless more commercial software were willing to actively support the migration, so even though linux audio is interesting it will be a while before I use it, that's just my opinion.